Apocalypse Explained, volume 1 - Swedenborg Foundation

APOCALYPSE EXPLAINED 238“cake,” the good of heavenly love; “honey” its external delight; “oil”that love itself; and its “juice,” from which was the taste, its internaldelight; and the “rain with dew,” in which the manna was, theinflux of Divine truth in which that delight is. (That “seed”signifies truth from a heavenly origin, see Arcana Coelestia, n. 3038,3373, 10248, 10249; that “white” is predicated of that truth, n.3301, 3993, 4007, 5319; that “cake” signifies the good of heavenlylove, n. 7978, 9992, 9993; that “oil” signifies that love itself, n.886, 3728, 9780, 9954, 10261, 10269; its “juice,” therefore,signifies the delight of that love, because the taste is therefrom, andthe taste is the delight and pleasantness, see n. 3502, 4791–4805.But more about these matters may be seen in the explanation ofchapter 16 of Exodus in Arcana Coelestia.)[6] The delight of heavenly love is signified by “eating of thehidden manna,” when yet by “the hidden manna” the Lord inrespect to the Divine human is signified, because it is the samewhether you say the Lord’s Divine human, or the Divine love, forthe Lord is Divine love itself, and what proceeds from him isDivine good united to Divine truth; both are of love, and are alsothe Lord in heaven; consequently “to eat of him” is to be conjoinedto him, and this by love from him. (But these things may be betterunderstood from what is said and shown in Heaven and Hell, n.13–19, 116–125, 126–140; also in Doctrine of the New Jerusalem,n. 210–222, 307.)147. And will give him a white stone, signifies wisdom andintelligence. This is evident from the signification of “a whitestone,” when [it is given] by the Lord, as being reception from himand influx; and as it is reception and influx from the Lord, it also iswisdom and intelligence from him, for those who receive from theLord and with whom the Lord flows in, are in wisdom andintelligence. “To give a white stone” signifies these things, becauseformerly in public decisions the votes were taken by means ofstones; white stones indicating the affirmative opinions, and blackstones the negative; therefore by a “white stone” is signified thereception of wisdom and intelligence.